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Nicaraguan police seize 700
kg of cocaine
Nicaragua's National
Anti-Narcotic Police (PN) seized
700 kg of cocaine and arrested
three drug traffickers in the
Pacific port city of Corinth,
the country's police spokesman
said on Sunday.
The spokesman said the police
have arrested three people who
appear to be Nicaraguan citizens
in a drug-carrying red jeep, but
failed to catch two others who
were seen loading bags of
cocaine.
The police also tried to catch a
fleeing blue truck there, which
was carrying 16 sacks of cocaine
and several drug traffickers.
The police failed in the chase
and stopped in Chinandega, 132
km west of Managua.
Clarence Silva, head of the PN,
said the drug had been brought
into Nicaragua on Sunday by sea,
and was apparently to be
transported into neighboring
Honduras.
He said that in the United
States, the drug's eventual
destination, each kilo of
cocaine could be sold for 17,000
to 23,000 U.S. dollars. In
Nicaragua, the same drug is
worth around 5,000 to 5,500
dollars.
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